New Researcher Orientation is a wonderful opportunity to meet the TEES Management Team and put faces to names of those in the various research support offices. If you are new to TEES or would simply like to receive an overview of  research administration at TEES please join us on August 27th.

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In last month’s issue of funding ActiviTEES we reported the need for Hazardous Materials Training before transporting, shipping, receiving, handling or storing hazardous materials.

You might not be aware of the other safety training classes that are available on our Engineering SafetyNet web site at http://engineering.tamu.edu/safety/. Just click on the “Training” menu to see the list of available environmental health and safety training courses, including: (more…)

CANCELLED -

We have learned that due to Page Heller’s retirement, this presentation has been cancelled.

On April 20th and June 16th Mr. Page Heller will present IP 101 – Seminar.  An introduction to intellectual property management at Texas A&M.

 For more information see the flyer and call Teresa Wright at 979-845-6363.

If you are a new researcher at TEES or would simply like to put faces with the names of those who in the various research support offices, please join TRS at the New Researchers Orientation on January 15th.

New Researcher Orientation 

Starting January 1, 2009, the Human Subjects’ Protection Program (HSPP) and Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Texas A&M University will no longer accept the combination of VPR and NIH training. The only training accepted will be the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) course. All new Initial Review or Continuing Review applications will not be reviewed without submission of a CITI completion report.

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– Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)–

Time: February 3rd, 10 am-12 noon

Location: 049 Wisenbaker

TEES Strategic Research Development and the TAMU RGS Office of Proposal Development are co-sponsoring a workshop on the NSF CAREER program, specifically aimed at faculty from TAMU System institutions and TEES divisions. Program requirements and proposal-writing strategies will be discussed, along with specific strategies for faculty at predominately undergraduate institutions.
 

If interested in this opportunity please contact Laurie Garton at lsgarton@tamu.edu or 979-847-8585.

The Human Subjects’ Protection Program (HSPP) and the Institutional Review Board (IRB) will be implementing new training requirements in the coming year. Currently, training through the Division of Research and Graduate Studies and the National Institutes of Health have sufficed for human subjects’ training, but as of January 1, 2009, only the Collaborative Institution Training Initiative (CITI) course will be accepted. Investigators will be required to submit CITI completion with new Initial or Continuing Review Applications.

Also starting January 1st, the CITI refresher course will be implemented. The refresher course is similar to the initial CITI course, but it is more condensed and has more complicated scenarios. The refresher course will be required two years from the date of Investigators’ CITI course completion.

More information about the CITI course can be found on the HSPP/IRB website at http://researchcompliance.tamu.edu/irbunder the “IRB Training”
section.

You may contact Melissa McIlhaney at (979) 458-4067 or at mcilhaney@tamu.eduif you have any questions.

Researchers using hazardous materials must complete U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR) training before transporting, shipping, receiving, handling or storing hazardous materials, under the new TEES procedures in effect at September 01, 2008 for FY-2009. Similar requirements affect university employees, as well. (more…)

“A Huge Success” 

 On June 24, 2008, TEES Fiscal Office and the Office of Sponsored Research, hosted The TEES Expenditure Compliance Workshop. It was a great opportunity for Regional Division personnel to meet the TEES personnel who handle the daily paperwork for vouchers, travel, property inventory, purchasing, etc. Regional personnel were also given the chance to network with each other. The 30 participants arrived from destinations as far apart of the Texas Panhandle to the Coast. If you have questions about this workshop, or possible future meetings please contact Cindy Baxter at 979-458-7630. cbaxter@tamu.edu.

On April 24th Page Heller, Senior Licensing Manager from OTC (Office of Technology Commercialization) presented “Protecting Your Intellectual Property” to the researchers at TEES.

The presentation included:

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